This is a real-time, ephemeral, room-based chat system, housed in a dynamic & modern web application.
- September 16th 2023: Purchased new domain & deployed the project to https://live-chat.viral32111.dev.
- September 11th 2023: Freenom suspended my https://viral32111.cf domain.
- July 25th 2023: Deployed on Oracle Cloud (including database) to https://livechat.viral32111.cf.
- June 25th 2023: Deployment suspended due to running out of free credit on Google Cloud Platform.
- January 11th 2023: Initially publicly deployed to https://livechat.viral32111.cf running on Google Cloud's Compute Engine virtual machines, although the database is hosted on MongoDB Atlas.
Alternatively you can run it locally by using the official Docker image. You will need to set all the required environment variables (see production.env).
This assumes you have a MongoDB server already up and running.
- Clone this repository (
git clone https://github.com/viral32111/LiveChat.git) - Switch to the server directory (
cd ./Server) - Install production & development dependencies (
npm install) - Setup up
development.env&test.envenvironment variables files (copy production.env and configure appropriately). - Run unit & integration tests (
npm test). - Start project (
npm start)
See the Kanban board, issues and milestones for tracking the project's progress.
Copyright (C) 2022-2023 viral32111.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses.